FORTUNE -- FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller has been reading through the motions Apple (AAPL) and Samsung filed in advance of their upcoming patent trial in the Northern District of California and has come across a few interesting tidbits.
Both sides...
FORTUNE -- Apple (AAPL), like every other company in America, from Amazon (AMZN) to Google (GOOG), uses every loophole it can find -- and at least one it apparently invented -- to avoid paying a penny more than...
FORTUNE -- Apple (AAPL), like every other company in America, from Amazon (AMZN) to Google (GOOG), uses every loophole it can find -- and at least one it apparently invented -- to avoid paying a penny more than...
FORTUNE -- Tim Cook seemed to be putting some distance between himself and Steve Jobs during Tuesday's conference call when he was asked about Apple's (AAPL) flexibility in its ongoing patent disputes with the makers of Google (GOOG) Android phones.
"I've...
There were two schools of commentary on Verizon's (VZ) report last week that it activated 3.2 million iPhones last quarter, down from 4.2 million in the Christmas quarter.
"Verizon Q1 Adds: Tablets Up, But iPhones Down" was the headline on Investors' Business Daily,...
A new app makes it easy (and fun!) to compare download speeds, but can it be trusted?
According to the snapshot at right, AT&T's (T) cellular service in Park Slope Brooklyn is nearly 5 times faster than Verizon's (VZ) and more than 7 times faster than Sprint's (S).
At least that's the reading I get on my...
Expects market to grow to nearly 119 million units in 2012, with Apple taking 61%
When it comes to tablet computers, a market Apple (AAPL) dominated in 2010 and 2011, Gartner expects more of the same for the foreseeable future.
In a report issued Tuesday, the research firm projected tablet sales to end users to reach 118.9...
With the world's mobile phone market at stake, what were Nokia and Microsoft thinking?
On Monday morning, the day after the U.S. launch of the Lumia 900 -- the device with which Nokia (NOK) and Microsoft (MSFT) hope to challenge Apple's (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) Android's growing dominance of the global smartphone market -- I searched...
The latest comScore data suggest that half of iPhone buyers are repeat customers
Here's a lesson from Asymco's Horace Dediu in how to add color and value to raw data.
First he did what comScore should have done when it released its February U.S. mobile phone market report: He graphed the data, showing not only comScore's latest...
The secret to populating an unpopular smartphone platform: cash incentives
A nice piece of reporting by Jenna Wortham and Nick Wingfield landed on the front page of the New York Times Business section Friday morning, two days before the launch of the Nokia Lumia 900.
When free phones and promises of prime real estate on the Windows...
Apple is the favorite -- once again -- in Piper Jaffray's 23rd semi-annual teen survey
"The bottom line," writes Gene Munster in a note summarizing the results of Piper Jaffray's latest survey of the aspirations of American teenagers, "is that 40% of students plan on buying an iPhone in the next 6 months while 19% of...
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